f9 preview install via NFS won't

[Terry Polzin]

On Wednesday April 30 2008, Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Apr 30, 2008, at 3:50, Terry Polzin <foxec208 at wowway.com> wrote:
> > On Wednesday April 30 2008, Frederick William New wrote:
> >> On 30. aprill 2008. a. 5:14, Terry Polzin wrote
> >>
> >>> I boot from boot.iso, get dhcp address, specify NFS host &
> >>> directory,
> >>> partition the disk, etc. and when it comes time to mount the iso
> >>> to a
> >>> loopback device  it can't.
> >>
> >> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=443291
> >>
> >> There is a problem with installing from a hard disk, too - high on
> >> the
> >> rudeness scale since it formats your /boot and root file systems just
> >> before it fails.  You can work around the NFS installation problem by
> >> hexedit'ing your -DVD.iso file - see comments 10 and 15 in bugzilla.
> >>
> >> This is a Fedora 9 blocker bug, so it should be fixed by the time
> >> Fedora 9
> >> becomes generally available.
> >>
> >> Fred
> >
> > This is a show stopper especially when NFS install is mostly all I
> > do and to
> > top it all off root can't even edit the file and rewrite it.  But
> > that HAS to
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> This should be fixed in recent anaconda builds. You van use rawhide
> boot.ISO to install from nfs ISO of preview.
>
> --jes

Yup, the boot.iso from rawhide solved this issue.  Now I have a machine that 
can't find the logical disk on a compaq array driver.  Machine is a DL360 G1.
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